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Michael Parenti: Diversity And Orthodoxy In The News Media

By MariaJune 30, 2026Michael Parenti Films on DVD, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

On August 28, 2008 analysis of the media Michael Parenti’s most up-to-date contribution. He gave the keynote speech for the Modern Media Censorship lectures by Project Censored. Each year Project Censored gives awards for the most censored news stories of the year. Parenti lists important criteria by which to judge media bias, ranging from ownership to labeling, false objectivity and sensationalism, omission, outright lies and the denial of causality with the famous theory of “stuff happens”.
Michael Parenti (1935-2026) wrote and lectured on the mainstream media for decades. His key book on this topic is “Inventing Reality – The politics of the News Media.” With roots in a working class Italian district of New York and a Ph.D. in political science [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: God And His Demons – Part Two

By MariaJune 23, 2026Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

This is The second part of Dr. Michael Parenti’s talk on his book: God and His Demons. The 2010 book covers the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history, and the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.
Parenti (1935-2026) was one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. He was a prolific author and an engaging speaker. Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York city. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale he taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam. He served on the board of judges for [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: God And His Demons – Part One

By MariaJune 16, 2026Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

This is The first part of Dr. Michael Parenti’s talk on his book: God and His Demons. The 2010 book covers the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history, and the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.
Parenti (1935-2026) was one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. He was a prolific author and an engaging speaker. Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York city. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale he taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam. He served on the board of judges for [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Capitalism’s Apocalypse (ONE of ONE)

By MariaJune 9, 2026Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

Why the rich can’t save anybody – not even themselves
Parenti predicted the financial crisis and said that giant corporate capitalism – by it’s very nature – is an apocalyptic system. When unregulated the built in elements of ever increased growth may well bring the whole system down. And he described the growing national debt not as a tragic mistake but as a means to shift ever more money from the tax payers to the financial institutions in the form of interest payments. This speech is an analysis of the many structural flaws of a capitalist system that puts it on a permanent collision course with democracy.
Recorded on August 23, 2008 at the closing reception for Maria Gilardin’s art show. [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti Political Liberties and Economic Democracy – Part Two

By MariaJune 2, 2026Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

From the University of Hartford Series: CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE 21st CENTURY – In his November 2009 lecture at the University of Hartford Dr. Michael Parenti answers intriguing questions about democracy. Is US democracy a result of capitalism as some claim – or does it exist – such as it is – in spite of the current economic system. AND did the founding fathers even envision a democratic system – and why were so many of them opposed to democracy.
Parenti (1933-2026) was one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. This is part two of his one hour lecture. He was introduced by the President of the University of Hartford, Walter Harrison. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti Political Liberties and Economic Democracy – Part One

By MariaMay 26, 2026Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

From the University of Hartford Series: CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE 21st CENTURY – In his November 2009 lecture at the University of Hartford Dr. Michael Parenti answers intriguing questions about democracy. Is US democracy a result of capitalism as some claim – or does it exist – such as it is – in spite of the current economic system. AND did the founding fathers even envision a democratic system – and why were so many of them opposed to democracy.
Parenti (1933-2026) was one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. This is part one of his one hour lecture. He was introduced by the President of the University of Hartford, Walter Harrison. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Voting In The USA – Part Two

By MariaMay 19, 2026Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

How the Vote was Won and Lost
If the right to vote is taken as a measure of a vibrant democracy, the United States came off to a bad start. Dr. Michael Parenti says that the most interesting list from the period of 1787 is the rather long one of people who were not allowed to vote and the many ways in which votes have been stolen during the Bush administration.
This archival recording is a primer on the history of voting and the day to day efforts to make democracy come alive that shows Parenti at his best as historian and engaged political thinker.
Parenti (1933-2026) was one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Voting In The USA – Part One

By MariaMay 12, 2026Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

How the Vote was Won and Lost
If the right to vote is taken as a measure of a vibrant democracy, the United States came off to a bad start. Dr. Michael Parenti says that the most interesting list from the period of 1787 is the rather long one of people who were not allowed to vote – and he names all of them. Also, in Part TWO, the many ways in which votes have been stolen during the Bush administration.
This archival recording is a primer on the history of voting and the day to day efforts to make democracy come alive that shows Parenti at his best as historian and engaged political thinker.
Parenti (1933-2026) was one of the nation’s [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Ideology And Conspiracy Part Two

By MariaMay 5, 2026Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

From: Understanding Deep Politics Conference, Santa Cruz, CA. – May 14/16 2010
In this entertaining talk, rich with historic references, Parenti describes the right-wing agenda of dismantling social democracy while calling anybody who describes this as a purposeful strategy a conspiracy theorist. He shows that this strategy began right after World War II but culminates now as powerful segment of right wing media and the GOP have moved so far to the right that they have overshot their popular base. Meanwhile democrats, including Obama, unable or unwilling to formulate the social democratic alternative, still talk of bipartisan approaches.

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Michael Parenti: Ideology and Conspiracy Part One

By MariaApril 28, 2026Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

Michael Parenti: The Struggle for History (TWO of TWO)

By MariaApril 21, 20262011, All Time Favorites, Catalog, Newest Podcasts

The conclusion of this speech builds up to a timely and inspiring quote by William Faulkner: “The past is never dead and buried, in fact it is never even passed. If we are lied to with impunity we are robbed of the first condition of a democratic citizenry, how the present can help us understand the past and the past understand the present. How we can arm ourselves against the lies and calumny that are bombarding us all the time. And our history need not bore us, our history need not imprison us but it can liberate our understanding so that we might become not its victims but its active agents.”

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Michael Parenti: The Struggle for History (ONE of TWO)

By MariaApril 14, 2026All Time Favorites, Catalog, Michael Parenti, Newest Podcasts, Podcasts

Parenti quotes Winston Churchill who said to his fellow party members: “History will be kind to us because I plan to write it.” Far from being an objective account of events history bears the mark of its writer, the omissions of the censors, and the interests of those who benefit from making it. Parenti shows how to take the recording of history back from politicians, the media, professors, clergy, and business people.

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Michael Parenti: The Pathology of Wealth (TWO of TWO)

By MariaApril 7, 20262012, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

Parenti describes the pathologies of capitalism by its inability to respond to climate change. Quoting a cartoon he reads: “While the end of the world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, ..the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.” Also arguments for the benefits of socialism in areas of our lives that should not be managed under the profit system. He lists health care, energy, and transportation.

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Michael Parenti: THE PATHOLOGY OF WEALTH (ONE of TWO)

By MariaMarch 31, 20262012, Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

The first talk of 2012 by the social critic and noted author Michael Parenti fit perfectly into the debates of the time, that of the One versus the 99% and the finally no longer taboo question: What exactly is CAPITALISM? Parenti is debunking some of the myths of capitalism: That it creates jobs, peace, democracy and wealth – etc.

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Michael Parenti: The Face of Imperialism

By MariaMarch 24, 2026Newest Catalog Items, Newest Podcasts

“The Face of Imperialism will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people around the world – many of them indigenous peoples – who are defending themselves against the Empire.” That’s what the author Andre Vltchek wrote for the jacket of Dr. Michael Parenti’s most recent book.

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